Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...placed Pennsylvania's Anthracite Choir fifth. Important as usual was the bardic contest, in which young poets vie to win fame in the lyric annals of Wales. Last week Caradoc Prichard, 23, Cardiff journalist, established a record by winning for the third consecutive year. The Archdruid, robed in white with a golden breastplate, commanded the people to rise and sing Hen Whad Fy Nhadau. In purple raiment, Bard Prichard walked to the presidential chair, seated himself amid a circle of white-clad druids, poets in azure, orators in green. A golden diadem was placed upon his head. Above...
Because it is delicate rather than garish, scholarly rather than smart, the work of Cleland escapes the casual observer of U. S. advertising pages. But famed was his General Motors series (1924), black and white pictorial decorations for statistics-Labor, Car Sales, Assets, Freight, etc.-drawn with such refinement that they seemed like engravings. Famed also was his Cadillac catalog (1927) in which sleek, pastel-tinted automobiles were pictured in great vaulted salons or beneath the towers of fabulous cities. Most numerous of Cleland's work are borders and title pages in the Renaissance spirit-filigrees of twining tendrils...
Declaring pungently that Great Britain is tired of being "Europe's henpecked husband," Chancellor Snowden demanded that the conference take steps to modify the Young Plan in accordance with his wishes. Trembling with earnestness, clutching the heads of his canes until his knuckles showed white, his hurled his ultimatum: "I have behind me the unanimous support of my government, the support of the House of Commons, irrespective of the party in power, and the support of the entire population of Great Britain. I speak frankly. I cannot compromise...
...Foul!" Flustered and anxious to avoid a scene, the conference interpreter did not translate into French the insult to M. Cheron?and M. Cheron understands no English. Not until Mr. Snowden was safely away did the Frenchman's bushy white beard begin to bristle. Colleagues had told him what had been said. M. Cheron rushed to the acting chairman of the session, Belgium's Baron Houtart, demanded that he obtain an apology. At Mr. Snowden's hotel, Baron Houtart had to wait some six hours before the Chancellor returned from his outing. Then with a sardonic grin, Philip Snowden wrote...
Helen ("Big Helen") Wills, in crisp white linen, crisply set down Mrs. Phoebe Watson...